TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 23 April 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

♦ — [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] o*B VBBIS ABBOOUTIOK.] Wellington, April 21. Major Atkinion, Colonel Treasurer, leaves for Taranaki for a abort holiday. The Government hare imported a nunn I ber of marine lamps intended for ate as I coast lights, in positions wbieh do not warrant the cost of erecting lighthouses. The mission steamer arrived on Thurs* I day from the Islands ; she report* having visited the mission stations of the Gulf of Carpentaria and Torres Straits where I all were well. Captain Bedioh, naturalist and explorer, fell overboard from her the day after leaving Port Moresby and was drowned. The actual deficiency in the Colonial revenue is stated to be £273,000. Chbistohvbch. During the past fortnight four cases of diphtheria, and tea of typhoid fever, and One of scarlet fever have been reported to the Local Board of Health. Dr Nedwell in his reports to the Board combats the opinion expressed by the Hospital surgeon, as mentioned in a telegram last

week, that typhoid fever is not infectious. AtTCKtAND. At the Resident Magitjßte'u Court, Mr John King applied j^jjKn-cement of a judgment summons fo^fei3 18s against Mr James Mackay, Resident Magistrate at Greymouth. Tbe creditor deposed that defendant was R.M. at Greymouth at £650 per annum, and had been so since judgment was obtained. Hit Worship mnde an order for payment of the debt oo Hay 6th, orin default of payment 14 days' imprisonment.